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Machine structural steel product

EP 1069198 A1 · Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.

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  • Filed January 25, 2000 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended January 25, 2020.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by July 25, 2025.
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FiledJanuary 25, 2000
PublishedJanuary 17, 2001
GrantedNever granted
Term endedJanuary 25, 2020
Application numberEP 00900930
Classification (CPC)C22C38/18 +2 more

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